WeLASER Summer School

AI-Autonomous Robots for Agriculture – Weeding with Laser

“AI-Autonomous Robots for Agriculture – Weeding with Laser” is a short summer school to introduce intelligent autonomous robotics for agriculture focused on the specific example of weeding with laser. The course is intended for undergraduate, master’s and PhD’s students, PhD researchers, industry practitioners and academics interested in the robotics trends for agriculture, including technical, scientific, economic and ecological aspects.

This school is part of the dissemination activities of the WeLASER project (European Union H2020 programme, N. 101000256)

Dates and venue

The course will be taught on July 10 to 12 and will consist of online lectures for the first and second days. The third day will focus on a training course and demonstrations.

Registered students will be invited to attend the training and demonstration on-site that will be carried out at the Centre for Automation and Robotics, Madrid, Spain. Free refreshments and transportation (Madrid-CAR-Madrid) will be provided.

Centre for Automation and Robotics, CAR (UPM-CSIC)

Carretera CAMPO-REAL km 0,2; La Poveda

28500 Arganda del Rey, Madrid, Spain

The course is free of charge but will require a pre-registration. A diploma will be provided to the attendees.

Day 1, July 10, 2023

Monday, July 10, 2023

(Online sessions)

09:30-10:15

Introducing the summer school

Precision agriculture and robotics

Pablo Gonzalez-de-Santos (CSIC, Spain)

10:15-11:00

AI controllers for autonomous robots

Luis Emmi (CSIC, Spain)

11:00-11:15

Break

11:15-12:00

Cloud computing for agriculture

Matteo Francia (University of Bologna, Italy)

12:00 – 12:45

Precision agriculture: farm economics and B2B management

(Ghent University, Belgium)

Day 2, July 11, 2023 (online)

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

(Online sessions)

09:30-10:15

AI algorithms for weeding with laser

Laser Zentrum Hannover, Germany

10:15-11:00

Laser effect on crops and animals

Christian Andreasen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

11:00-11:15

Break

11:15-12:00

IoT for agriculture

Giuliano Vitali (University of Bologna, Italy)

12:00–12:45

Real robots for real agriculture

(AGREENCULTURE, France)

12:45-13:30

Ecological aspects of using autonomous robots for agriculture

Janusz Krupanek (Institute for the Ecology of Industrial Areas, Poland)

Day 3 - July 12, 2023 - (On-site)

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

(On-site / Online sessions)

On-site

Online

09:30-10:00

Moving from Madrid to CAR (UPM-CSIC)

CAR
Shuttle

 

10:00-10:30

·        Introducing CAR

·        Introducing the demo

Pablo Gonzalez-de-Santos (CSIC, Spain)

CAR Auditorium

Online

10:30-11:00

Introducing the WeLASER equipment and training

Luis Emmi (CSIC, Spain)

High-bay
Lab

Online

11:00-11:30

Coffee
break

 

 

11:30-13:00

Demo

Luis Emmi (CSIC, Spain)

Experimental
Field

Online

13:00-13:15

Questionnaire to attendees

Pablo Gonzalez-de-Santos (CSIC, Spain)

 

Online

13:15-14:30

Lunch at CAR-CSIC

 

 

14:30

Returning to Madrid

CAR Shuttle